“Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.”
“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. ”
“Beauty comes naturally, but it's hard to be stunning by accident.”
“Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they are invincibly brought back to more pious sentiments. Unbelief is an accident, and faith is the only permanent state of mankind.”
“My attitude toward spiders is similar to my attitude toward ballerinas: I am in awe of your natural beauty and flawless instincts, but if you come in my house I will kill you.”
“Stillness was most natural. To go on scrabbling and running and grasping after some kind of life was aberration; stillness was lasting.”